Judges 20:5

Easy To Read Version

But during the night the leaders of the city of Gibeah came to the house where I was staying. They surrounded the house, and they wanted to kill me. They raped my woman servant, and she died.

Cross References

Leviticus 18:24

“Don’t make yourself unclean [331] with any of those wrong things! I am throwing nations out of their countries and giving their land to you! Why? Because those people did those terrible sins!

Deuteronomy 22:21

then the town leaders must bring the girl to the door of her father’s house. Then the men of the town must kill her with stones. Why? Because she has done a shameful thing in Israel. She has acted like a prostitute [138] in her father’s house. You must remove that evil from your people.

Deuteronomy 22:24

then you must bring them both out to the public place near the gate of that city, and you must kill them with stones. You must kill the man, because he used another man’s wife for sexual sin. And you must kill the girl, because she was in the city but did not call for help. You must remove that evil from your people.

Joshua 7:15

The man who is keeping those things that we should have destroyed will be caught. Then that man will be destroyed by fire. And everything that he owns will be destroyed with him. That man broke the Agreement with the Lord. He has done a very bad thing to the people of Israel!’”

Judges 19:22

While the Levite [157] man and those that were with him were enjoying themselves, some of the men from that city surrounded the house. They were very bad men. They began beating on the door. They shouted at the old man that owned the house. They said, “Bring out the man that came to your house. We want to have sex with him.”

Judges 19:28

The Levite man said to her, “Get up, let’s go!” But she did not answer—{she was dead}.

Judges 20:4

So the husband of the woman that had been murdered told them the story. He said, “My woman servant [168] and I came to the city of Gibeah in the area of Benjamin. We spent the night there.